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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

• 00:00

  Philip Glass

  Knee Play 1 (Einstein on the Beach)

  Performer: The Philip Glass Ensemble

  • CBS M4K38875.

• Infinite Numbers 1

  Pi, readers David Annen and Saskia Reeves

• W. H. Auden

  Numbers and Faces, reader David Annen

• 00:03

  Claude Debussy

  Reflets dans l'eau (Images – Premier Livre)

  Performer: Pascal Rogé (piano)

  • DECCA 443 021-2.
• 00:08

  Charles Ives

  The Unanswered Question

  Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

  • DG 439 869-2.

• Roy Jacobstein

  Infinity Plus One, reader Saskia Reeves

• The Zohar (cited by Daniel Matt)

  The Aroma of Infinity, reader David Annen

• 00:15

  Henri Dutilleux

  VII Temps suspendu (Ainsi la Nuit)

  Performer: Arditti Quartet

  • WHLIVE 0003.

• T. S. Eliot

  Burnt Norton (Four Quartets), reader Saskia Reeves

• 00:20

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  The Infinite Shining Heavens (Songs of Travel)

  Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano)

• Wallace Bruce

  The Infinite, reader Saskia Reeves

• 00:23

  Olivier Messiaen

  Oraison (1937)

  Performer: Ensemble d’Ondes Martenot de Montréal

  • SUB ROSA SR250.
• 00:31

  Conlon Nancarrow

  Prelude (Prelude and Blues)

  Performer: Cheryl Seltzer (piano)

  • MUSIC MASTERS 70682.

• Infinite Numbers 2

  Fractions, readers Saskia Reeves and David Annen

• Robert Herrick

  God, reader David Annen

• 00:32

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Ricercar (The Musical Offering, BWV.1079)

  Performer: Fretwork

  • HMU 907395.

• Galileo Galilei

  The First Day (excerpt), readers Saskia Reeves and David Annen

• 00:41

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Flautina

  Performer: Kathinka Pasveer (flute)

  • STOCKHAUSEN STOCKHAUSEN28.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  The Traveller through Infinity, reader Saskia Reeves

• Douglas Adams

  The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (excerpt), reader David Annen

• 00:46

  John Cage

  Sonata 5 (Sonatas and Preludes)

  Performer: Rolf Hind (piano)

  • WARP WARPCD144.

• Infinite Numbers 3

  Decimals, readers Saskia Reeves and David Annen

• 00:48

  Henry Purcell

  Hear my Prayer, O Lord

  Performer: Armonico Consort

  • SIGNUM SIGCD235.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  The Bohemian Hymn, reader Saskia Reeves

• The New English Bible (Genesis, 11)

  The Tower of Babel, reader David Annen

• 00:52

  György Ligeti

  Coloana infinita (Etudes)

  Performer: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

  • SONY SK62308.

• Lucretius (trans. R. E. Latham)

  Matter and Space (extract from The Nature of the Universe), reader David Annen

• 00:55

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  String Quartet in F major, Op.135, 3mvt

  Performer: Takacs Quartet

  • DECCA 470 849-2.
• 01:03

  Howard Skempton

  Even Tenor

  Performer: Joanna MacGregor (piano)

  • SOUND CIRCUS SC007.

• M. C. Escher

  The Graphic Work (excerpt), reader David Annen

• Joan Miro

  Quotation, reader Saskia Reeves

• Rabindranath Tagore

  What is Boundless and Endless, reader David Annen

• 01:07

  Gustav Mahler

  Der Abschied (extract)

  Performer: Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Czech PO, Vaclav Neumann (conductor)

  • PRAGA PR254052.
• 01:11

  Michael Vetter

  Breathing Wind (extract)

  Performer: Michael Vetter and The Overtone Choir

  • AMIATA ARNR0192.

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Finite and Infinite, reader Saskia Reeves

• Giacomo Leopardi

  The Infinite, reader David Annen